Then I shall be reported lost, and after a while Mr.Hepburn will hear the news.

Wonder what he thinks has become of me anyhow?
I am following out instructions, and wintering in Labrador fast enough.

Only I don't seem to have much time to investigate mining properties, and of course it's no use trying to find 'em buried under feet of snow.

Perhaps Mr.
Balfour has discovered some while roaming around the country as a man-wolf.

How absurd to think of 'Voltage' Balfour as a man-wolf! Wonder why he did it?
How I wish he could talk! Wonder why he can't ?" While thus cogitating, Cabot had also been climbing a nearby eminence that promised a view of the outlying country, but from it he could see nothing save other hills rising still higher and an unbroken waste of snow.
"It's no use," he sighed.